Fake cd partition for itunes?

Kevo

I just bought a load of songs on itunes. Unfortunately my mp3 player does not play copy protected files and I don't want to waste a load of blank cds to convert them to an unprotected format(burn to cd and rip to hard drive). A friend of mine told me that it is possible to make a partition which tricks itunes into thinking its a cd. Anyone know how to do this?
Kev

Matt Simis

Kevo wrote:

I just bought a load of songs on itunes. Unfortunately my mp3 player does not play copy protected files and I don't want to waste a load of blank cds to convert them to an unprotected format(burn to cd and rip to hard drive). A friend of mine told me that it is possible to make a partition which tricks itunes into thinking its a cd. Anyone know how to do this?
Kev

One wonders why you purchased copy protected music from a closed system music store like iTunes in the first place. There are so many better, legal, alternatives out there as well as the excellent mostly legal Allofmp3.com

The software you mentioned is likely a variant of Alcohol or Daemon tools, basically image loaders.


Matt

Sean^DCT4

Matt Simis wrote:

One wonders why you purchased copy protected music from a closed system music store like iTunes in the first place. There are so many better, legal, alternatives out there as well as the excellent mostly legal Allofmp3.com

The software you mentioned is likely a variant of Alcohol or Daemon tools, basically image loaders.


Matt

I'd have to agree with Matt on this.
Basically all these programs would do is set aside 700+MB of HD space and create a virtual partition/drive that is used to emulate the operations of a CD/DVD drive.

You can do this manually I do believe using Command Prompt (SUBST command I think..) but I think that the programs mentioned above are exactly what you'd be looking for Kevo

Kevo

cool, il give that a try.

Matt Simis wrote:

One wonders why you purchased copy protected music from a closed system music store like iTunes in the first place. There are so many better, legal, alternatives out there as well as the excellent mostly legal Allofmp3.com

Besides Allofmp3.com and the eircom store are there any other legal download sites available in Ireland. The only alternative I know of is Naer and they decided to skip Ireland.

netwhizkid

CD RW's are an option too, however more slower and annoying I never knew itunes added copy protection to their stuff.

Matt Simis

Kevo wrote:

cool, il give that a try.



Besides Allofmp3.com and the eircom store are there any other legal download sites available in Ireland. The only alternative I know of is Naer and they decided to skip Ireland.

I think Napster.co.uk supports Ireland too. Certainly the US Napster.com had no problem selling here if you told chose "Based on US Military Base Overseas" as your location!

Also try www.musicbrigade.com . I think MSN Music may also work.



Matt

art

Matt Simis wrote:

I think Napster.co.uk supports Ireland too. Certainly the US Napster.com had no problem selling here if you told chose "Based on US Military Base Overseas" as your location!

Also try www.musicbrigade.com . I think MSN Music may also work.

Matt

Are these not all copy protected files too? Not all mp3 players can play copy protected mp3s, eg the iAudio, as far as I recall - the OP should mention what the player is he has to be sure....

Matt Simis

art wrote:

Are these not all copy protected files too? Not all mp3 players can play copy protected mp3s, eg the iAudio, as far as I recall - the OP should mention what the player is he has to be sure....

Apart from AllofMp3 and some small scale sites, all legal music providers offer music using some sort of protection (DRM). Virtually all non-iPOd player players in the last 2.5yrs support WMA DRM v9 (including most if not all iAudio players..?).

Some newer players from Creative, iRiver, iAudio etc support WMA DRM10 which allows subscription services too (not supported at all on iPods). Basically pay €15 a month to fill your player with 10,000+ tracks.


Matt